Forum on end-of-life and launch of the ‘Think Ahead’ campaign – Podcasts

 On Wednesday (October 12th) the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Forum on end of life hosted its annual forum in Croke Park.

The day also saw the launch of the ‘Think Ahead’ campaign which aims to provide the public with a method of discussing and recording their end of life preferences and wishes. You can find out more about the project and fill in your own wishes on the ‘Think Ahead’ form’ on the new site HERE

For anyone who wasnt in attendance at the forum in Croke park you can listen to podcasts from the morning here

• Interview with Taoiseach Enda Kenny on the ‘Think Ahead’ initiative HERE

• Recording of the morning session including the Mary Holland memorial lecture by Conor O Clery and response from Prof. Tom Inglis  – Listen HERE
  
• Recording of the Mid morning session featuring the launch of the ‘Think Ahead’ website and address by an Taoiseach Enda Kenny – HERE (Click ‘download’  then ‘download anyway’ when link opens)
• Recording of the afternoon session of the Forum on End-of-life Croke Park October 12 2011. Features feedback and audience questions on workshops, summary of the day by Ita Mangan and closing address by Irish Hospice Foundation board chairman Michael O Reilly. LISTEN HERE

Creative arts in bereavement – Newstalk Podcast

“There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in…” Anthem, Leonard Cohen

As part of the ‘Why we write’ series Newstalk broadcast THIS feature, on March 27th focusing on creative arts therapy and it’s potential benefits in bereavement and at the end of life.

The documentary features interviews with Irish Hospice Foundation bereavement services manager Dr Susan Delaney, Training Officer Breffni Mc Guinness and communications manager Paul Murray which offer an insight into the work and philosophy of the Irish Hospice Foundation and an examination of the therapeutic power of creative arts and literature as a means of coming to terms with grief and loss.

The Irish Hospice Foundation offers workshops on creative arts therapies as part of its workshop programme -  further details of up coming workshops, including drama therapy, creative writing and art therapy can be found HERE